The Uninvited

Two Bickering Sisters, a Stepmom and an Ominous Garbage Can

“The Uninvited” sounds like the name of a generic horror movie, which is more or less what it is. But when you stop to think about it, the title is actually a clue to the picture's lameness. Words beginning with “un” do have a certain scary resonance — intimations of the unknown, the undead, the uncontrollable and the unholy — but “uninvited”? As in “not on the guest list”? Only in Hollywood could such a notion be a source of terror.
By the time the credits rolled (“directed by the Guard Brothers”), I wished that the title had referred to me. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (3020 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 30 gennaio 2009